short story collection "The Lottery and Other Stories"

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book short story collection

"The Lottery and Other Stories" is a renowned collection of dark, psychologically unsettling short fiction by American author Shirley Jackson, best known for including her iconic story "The Lottery."

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Label	Occurrences
The Lottery and Other Stories	30
The Lottery and Other Stories (reissue contexts)	1
short story collection "The Lottery and Other Stories" canonical	1

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Target entity: short story collection "The Lottery and Other Stories"
Context triple: [Shirley Jackson, hasPart, short story collection "The Lottery and Other Stories"]

A. short story "In the Event of My Father’s Death"
"In the Event of My Father’s Death" is a short story by Roxane Gay that appears in her collection Difficult Women, exploring themes of family, grief, and complex emotional inheritance.
B. Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies is an acclaimed short story collection by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores themes of Indian and Indian-American identity, displacement, and human relationships.
C. The Monster and Other Stories
The Monster and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by American author Stephen Crane, showcasing his realist style and exploration of moral and social themes.
D. Collected Stories of William Faulkner
Collected Stories of William Faulkner is a celebrated anthology that brings together many of Faulkner’s most important short stories, showcasing his complex narrative style and exploration of the American South.
E. In the Penal Colony
"In the Penal Colony" is a dark, allegorical short story by Franz Kafka that explores themes of justice, bureaucracy, and cruelty through the depiction of a gruesome execution machine in a remote penal settlement.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

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Target entity: short story collection "The Lottery and Other Stories"
Target entity description: "The Lottery and Other Stories" is a renowned collection of dark, psychologically unsettling short fiction by American author Shirley Jackson, best known for including her iconic story "The Lottery."

A. short story "In the Event of My Father’s Death"
"In the Event of My Father’s Death" is a short story by Roxane Gay that appears in her collection Difficult Women, exploring themes of family, grief, and complex emotional inheritance.
B. Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies is an acclaimed short story collection by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores themes of Indian and Indian-American identity, displacement, and human relationships.
C. The Monster and Other Stories
The Monster and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by American author Stephen Crane, showcasing his realist style and exploration of moral and social themes.
D. Collected Stories of William Faulkner
Collected Stories of William Faulkner is a celebrated anthology that brings together many of Faulkner’s most important short stories, showcasing his complex narrative style and exploration of the American South.
E. In the Penal Colony
"In the Penal Colony" is a dark, allegorical short story by Franz Kafka that explores themes of justice, bureaucracy, and cruelty through the depiction of a gruesome execution machine in a remote penal settlement.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book ⓘ short story collection ⓘ
author	Shirley Jackson ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
criticalReception	acclaimed ⓘ
genre	Gothic fiction ⓘ horror fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ short fiction ⓘ
hasPart	A Fine Old Firm ⓘ After You, My Dear Alphonse ⓘ Afternoon in Linen ⓘ Charles ⓘ Colloquy ⓘ Come Dance with Me in Ireland ⓘ Dorothy and My Grandmother and the Sailors ⓘ Elizabeth ⓘ Epigraph ⓘ Flower Garden ⓘ Got a Letter from Jimmy ⓘ Like Mother Used to Make ⓘ Men with Their Big Shoes ⓘ My Life with R. H. Macy ⓘ Of Course ⓘ Pillar of Salt ⓘ Seven Types of Ambiguity ⓘ The Daemon Lover ⓘ The Dummy ⓘ The Intoxicated ⓘ The Lottery ⓘ The Order of Charlotte’s Going ⓘ The Renegade ⓘ The Tooth ⓘ The Very Strange House Next Door ⓘ The Villager ⓘ The Witch ⓘ Trial by Combat ⓘ
influencedGenre	modern horror fiction ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
literaryPeriod	20th-century American literature ⓘ
mediaType	print ⓘ
notableFor	including the short story "The Lottery" ⓘ
numberOfStories	25 ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
originalPublicationYear	1949 ⓘ
publicationDate	1949 ⓘ
publisher	Farrar, Straus and Company ⓘ linked to: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
settingCharacteristic	ordinary American life with underlying menace ⓘ
styleCharacteristic	psychological tension ⓘ suburban Gothic tone ⓘ

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